The opening range is the high and low of the first minutes of a session. Many traders mark it and watch which side price closes beyond. This indicator draws it for Tokyo, London and New York, each on its own city's clock, and tells you in plain words which textbook play is on your chart right now, with the level it measures.
Most opening range tools ask for a fixed time offset, so their boxes drift by an hour twice a year when the clocks change. This one reads every session on its home city's time, so it is right all year without an edit. When price closes beyond the range, the panel names the play: a break, the Classic ORB once the break has held four closes, a break and retest, or a failed break. It gives the level that play measures, and the close that would change the read. It never says what to do. It reads finished candles only.
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![[TP] Opening Range - Mentor on a light NAS100 five-minute chart: the London and New York opening ranges as soft shaded boxes, a square, circle and ring where price closed beyond and back, the one-range lines above and below, and the Mentor panel at the top left naming a break and retest.](https://titanprotect.trade/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/opening-range-mentor/opening-range-mentor-hero-nas100-5m.png)
![[TP] Opening Range - Mentor on a dark NAS100 five-minute chart: the London and New York opening ranges as soft shaded boxes, a square, circle and ring where price closed beyond and back, the one-range lines above and below, and the Mentor panel at the top left naming a break and retest.](https://titanprotect.trade/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/opening-range-mentor/opening-range-mentor-hero-nas100-5m_ink.png)
Every part of the indicator, numbered on one chart. Tap a number to jump to what it means.
The first minutes after a market opens often set the tone for the session, so the high and low of those minutes are among the oldest levels traders watch. Ours draws them right for every session, says in plain words what price has done with them, and names the textbook play when there is one. It describes what has happened. It does not say what comes next.
Tokyo opens at 09:00 Tokyo time, London at 08:00 London time, New York at 09:30 New York time, all year. When the clocks change in one city and not the other, the boxes stay where they belong.
A break, the Classic ORB, a break and retest, or a failed break, each with its level: "A one-range move reaches" a price, or "Opposite side in play" at the other edge. You get a level you can use on the chart.
Every play comes with the close that would change it, and the panel reminds you: "A named play is a pattern, not a promise." No odds, no win rates, no arrows. Decisions stay with you.
Opening range tools disagree on the times, the length and what a break is, and most never say. This one uses one set of rules, built from your chart's own finished candles.
London and New York change their clocks on different weekends, and for a week or two each spring and autumn the gap between their opens is an hour shorter. Each session here follows its own city, so it is right in those weeks too.
A 15 minute range needs candles that divide it evenly: 1, 3, 5 or 15 minutes. On a chart that does not fit, nothing is drawn and the panel names the charts that do. On daily charts it says: "Opening ranges need an intraday chart."
On a stock or a fund, the range starts at the exchange's own first candle of the day, on the exchange's clock: 09:30 for a US stock, 09:15 for an Indian stock on the NSE. Forex, futures, gold and crypto use the city sessions.
These are the textbook opening range plays, from Toby Crabel, Mark Fisher, Mike Bellafiore, Linda Raschke and Larry Williams. The panel names one only while it is true on your chart, and only while the session is open. The prices below are the form of each line; on your chart they are that range's own prices.
The first finished close beyond the range. The panel counts the closes beyond as they come: "Above 2650.00 for 1 of 4 closes: early." Nothing is called held yet.
The break has held for 4 closes, the break candle included, without coming back to the edge. Why 4: a close back inside within 3 candles is a failed break, so the 4th close is the first that can no longer fail that way.
Panel, the form"Classic ORB long: held above 2650.00." / "A one-range move reaches 2662.50."
After the break, a later candle came back close to the broken edge (within about a third of a typical candle's size) and still closed beyond it.
Panel, the form"Break and retest: held above 2650.00."
Price closed beyond the range, then closed back inside within 3 candles. The panel names the other edge, because that is the side now in play, and the close that would change the read.
Panel, the form"Failed break: back inside the range." / "Opposite side in play: 2637.50."
"A one-range move" is the range's own height added beyond the broken edge. A 12.50 range broken at 2650.00 measures 2662.50. It is a distance on the chart, not a promise that price gets there, and the panel says so: "A measured move is a distance, not a goal."
It names the play and the level the play measures. It never tells you to act on it, never shows a price to get out at, a position size or a percentage, and never shows how often a play worked in the past. The plays are patterns traders have written about for decades, not promises. Every play line comes with a "Changes if" line, so the other side of the story is always on the panel.
Up and down are treated the same way, mirrored. The marks use shapes, never arrows, and the range's colour only ever means which session it is, never which way price went.
Each range is a thin outline with a light fill in its session's colour: Tokyo plum, London teal, New York amber, Sydney slate, your own session grey. The small tag at its start says which session and how many minutes. Hover it for the high, the low and the size.
The chart keeps the last 3 ranges of each session by default ("Ranges kept per session", 1 to 10). Older ones leave oldest first, so the chart stays calm.
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The high and low are solid lines in a plain neutral colour, and the middle is a lighter dashed line ("Show midline", on). They run to the session's close, or on to the next open with "Carry lines to the next open". The current range's three prices also sit on the price scale.
Whether price closes in the top or bottom half of the range is one of the simplest reads there is. On Full detail the panel says which half price is in.
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A filled circle marks the first close above the range, just above that candle. A square marks the first close below it, just under that candle. A ring marks the first close back inside, on the line price came back through. Each appears once per range, when the candle has closed, and never moves.
On this chart New York first closed below its range, then one big candle closed straight above it, and a few candles later one candle closed back inside before price went on above. The marks are in one plain colour, so the shape carries the meaning. "Marks drawn" keeps the last 12 across all sessions.
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With "One range above and below" on (off by default), two thin dotted lines sit one range height beyond the high and the low. They show the range's own size as a distance on the chart. This is the level the panel names as "A one-range move reaches".
In "Plays and levels" you can add more measured levels: "Range extensions (1.272, 1.618, 2.0)", the "Prior day high and low", and the "Initial Balance (London and New York)", the high and low of the first hour with lines half an hour's range and one full range beyond. "Nearest levels only" (on) draws just the two measured levels nearest price on each side, so the chart stays readable.
Earlier sessions stay on the chart in their own colours, so the next session can be read against them. The panel compares New York with London and Tokyo, and London with Tokyo, using where each earlier session's high and low stood when the later one opened.
When a later session trades beyond an earlier one's high or low without a single close beyond it, then comes back inside, the panel says so plainly, for example "London swept Tokyo's high, back inside."
Back to the chart![Close-up of the panel header on a light chart: [TP] Opening Range | Break and retest, in the up colour.](https://titanprotect.trade/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/opening-range-mentor/or-el-header_paper.png)
![Close-up of the panel header on a dark chart: [TP] Opening Range | Break and retest, in the up colour.](https://titanprotect.trade/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/opening-range-mentor/or-el-header_ink.png)
The header gives the answer first: the state of the latest session, or the play when one is live. "No range yet", "Forming", "Inside the range", "Break above", "Classic ORB long", "Break and retest", "Failed break", "Back inside", and after the close "Broke up, held" or "Session over".
Only the header carries colour: the up colour above the range, the down colour below it, gold for inside, back inside or a failed break. Everything under it is plain text.
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Under the header, three rows carry the play: what happened, the level it measures, and the close that would change it. The Standard panel on the chart at the top of this page (NAS100, five minutes, New York, 19 October 2026), word for word, top to bottom:
Read it plainly: New York's range ran from 29524.6 to 29609.3, a size of 84.7. Price broke above it, came back close to the high and still closed above. One range height above the high is 29694.0. A close back under 29609.3 would end this read.
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Below the play, the panel says how this session sits against the others, each as a plain fact with what it means. On the chart at the top of this page:
It also says where the session opened against the prior trading day's range and whether it tested that day's high or low. Standard shows the two lines that matter most; Full shows them all. If a context line reads the other way from a live play, Standard leaves it out and Full keeps it with "Wider references read the other way." Once the session is over, the lines turn to the past tense, as in this Full panel from an earlier test build.
Back to the chartThe muted line near the bottom is a brief lesson. While a play is live it reads "A named play is a pattern, not a promise." Otherwise it changes with each new range: "The range is a reference line, not a wall.", "A failed break is a fact, not a forecast.", "The first minutes set a range, not a day.", "Wide ranges leave less room; check the size." or "Each session opens in its own city's time." When a session has closed beyond both sides, it says "Broke both sides: a two-way session."
The footer is always the same: "Closed candles only. Not advice."
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Once a session is over, its plays are no longer named. The panel says how it ended instead, in the past tense: "Broke down, held" with "Held below to the close: break accepted.", or "Broke up, late" with "Ended above after only 2 of 4 closes." when the session closed before the break had held 4 closes. The range then stays on the chart until the next one.
Back to the chartFour lines in Tiny text: the header, the play or state, its measured level, and the footer.
![The Phone panel on a dark chart: [TP] Opening Range | Break and retest, the play line, the one-range move and the footer.](https://titanprotect.trade/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/opening-range-mentor/or-el-phone_ink.png)
The play rows, up to two context lines, the teaching line and the footer. About seven lines.
Everything in Standard, plus every context line, the size of the range against this chart's last 20 ranges of that session, the measured levels you switched on, and the mark key.
Same indicator, same panel. What you get from it grows with you. The quoted lines are the panel's own words. Prices marked as the form of a line are there to show its shape, not read from a chart.
The habit it builds: seeing the opening range as the first minutes of a session, on that city's clock, judged on closes.
Teaching line"The range is a reference line, not a wall."
Teaching line"Each session opens in its own city's time."
The habit it builds: counting the closes beyond the edge, and naming a failed break as soon as it is one.
Break, the form"Above 2650.00 for 1 of 4 closes: early."
Failed break"Failed break: back inside the range."
The habit it builds: the play, its measured level and its change line, read together as one thought.
NAS100 five minutes, 19 Oct 2026"Break and retest: held above 29609.3."
Same chart"A one-range move reaches 29694.0."
The habit it builds: a steady second pair of eyes: this session against today's earlier ones and against yesterday, with the limit every time.
Session context, 19 Oct 2026"NY broke London's high: up side leads."
Teaching line"A named play is a pattern, not a promise."
Classic ORB long. The one-range move is measured above the high.
The form"Classic ORB long: held above 2650.00."
Mirrored: Classic ORB short, measured below the low.
The form"Classic ORB short: held below 2637.50."
A failed break. The other edge is in play.
The form"Opposite side in play: 2637.50."
The range is set when the candle at the end of the window closes, and every state, mark, play and alert waits for a finished candle. Nothing changes because of the candle that is still forming, and a reloaded chart shows exactly what it showed live. Bar Replay shows what the panel said at the time.
No arrows, no percentages, no odds and no count of how plays turned out before. It does not say why price broke, who was behind it, or what comes next. Every price on the panel comes from the ranges on the chart you are on. A holiday with no candles in the window gives no new range, and the panel keeps reading the last one as "Session over".
Change the range length and the range, the plays and the levels all change with it. No length is the right one; 15 minutes is the common choice.
The defaults work out of the box: Tokyo, London and New York on, 15 minute ranges, the Standard panel. These are the settings worth knowing.
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney / Tokyo / London / New York, Range length in minutes | Which sessions to draw, and the length of each one's range (1 to 240 minutes). Each can have its own length, for example London 15 and New York 30. SydneyTokyoLondonNew York | Tokyo, London, New York on; 15 |
| Stocks: use the exchange's own open | On a stock or fund, the range starts at the exchange's own first candle of the day, on its clock, with its own length. | On; 15 |
| Ranges kept per session / Show midline / Line names | How many past ranges of each session stay on the chart (1 to 10), the dashed middle line, and the names at the line ends. | 3; On; On |
| One range above and below / Carry lines to the next open / Yesterday's high and low | Dotted lines one range height beyond each side; lines that run on to the next open; and the same session's high and low from the day before. | Off; Off; Off |
| Weekends too | Adds Saturday and Sunday, for markets that trade all week. | Off |
| Range extensions (1.272, 1.618, 2.0) / Prior day high and low | Measured lines 0.272, 0.618 and one full range beyond each side (a Fibonacci convention, not evidence), and the prior trading day's high and low. The panel reads the prior day even with its lines off. | Off; Off |
| Initial Balance (London and New York) / IB 1.5x and 2x lines | The high and low of the first hour of London and New York (5 to 240 minutes), with lines half a first-hour range and one full first-hour range beyond. | Off, 60; On |
| Nearest levels only | Of the measured levels you switched on, draws only the two nearest price on each side. Turn it off to see them all. | On |
| Open times (each city's own clock) | The open of each session, in that city's local time. | Sydney 10:00, Tokyo 09:00, London 08:00, New York 09:30 |
| Custom session (Name, City clock, Open, Range length in minutes, Read the range for hours) | Your own session on any of 14 city clocks or UTC, for example an overnight range or a local exchange. | Off; 00:00 New York, 390 minutes, 16 hours |
| Mark breaks / Marks drawn / Mark size | The circle, square and ring, how many to keep across all sessions (0 to 30), and how big they are. TinySmallNormalLarge | On; 12; Normal |
| Show the Mentor panel / Panel detail | Phone shows four lines, Standard adds the change line and context, Full adds everything. PhoneStandardFull | On; Standard |
| Where to put the panel | Auto picks the top corner with the most empty room above the candles, or pick any of nine spots. AutoTop LeftTop Right | Auto |
| Panel text size / Colours | Tiny is the usual choice for a phone. Colours on Auto matches your chart: Paper on a light chart, Ink on a dark one. TinySmallNormalLarge | Tiny; Auto |
| Plain-words alerts | One alert that describes each event in words, with the prices. | On |
Every setting has a small (i) next to it. Hover over it, or tap it on a phone, and it explains that setting in plain English, right there on your chart.
The ranges, marks and panel come in a warm light and a warm dark palette. With "Colours" on Auto, it reads your chart background and picks the right one. The marks keep their shapes in both, so their meaning never depends on colour.
Each alert says what happened, once, after a candle closes, with the prices. None of them tells you what to do.
For the full sentence with the prices, create one alert on this indicator with "Any alert() function call". It names the session, the play, the edge and the measured level, for example:
TradingView's alert dialog also lists 32 conditions by name, if you want one event only: "<session> range set", "<session> closed above", "<session> closed below" and "<session> failed break" for Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York, Custom and the Exchange open; "Classic ORB long (any session)", "Classic ORB short (any session)", "Break and retest (any session)" and "Failed break (any session)"; and the four first-hour conditions for London and New York. "Plain-words alerts" in the settings switches the sentence alert off.
Start with the lesson, then watch the indicator explained.
What the opening range is, why each session needs its own city's clock, what counts as a break, and how to read the three textbook plays and their measured levels without treating them as promises. Concept first, indicator second, with a quiz.
Open the lessonNote each session's range and size, write what you expect before the first close beyond it, then write down which play it turned into, right or wrong. Over time your own notes show you more than any single chart.
Coming soonEvery part of the indicator, one at a time, on real charts: the session boxes on their own clocks, the high, middle and low, the marks, the named plays with their measured levels, and the session context.
What the opening range is, why the clocks matter, what makes a break, a Classic ORB, a break and retest or a failed break, and why a measured move is a distance, not a goal. Concept first, then the indicator.
Opening Range Mentor reads one lens deeply: the first minutes of each session and what price did with them. The full suite reads that together with momentum, volume, structure and flow, in the same plain-English Mentor voice.
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The highest and lowest price of the first few minutes of a session, most often the first 15. It is a small map of where the session started. What price does next, relative to that map, is what the panel reads.
Tokyo, London and New York are on by default; Sydney and your own custom session are one click away. Each is read on its home city's local time, so when the UK or the US changes its clocks, the box stays on that city's open. You never edit a time offset.
No. The range is set when the candle at the end of the window closes, and every state, mark, play and alert waits for a finished candle. Once a range is set, its high, middle and low never move.
Because a close back inside within 3 candles of the break counts as a failed break. Until the 4th close beyond the edge, the break could still fail that way, so the panel calls it "Break above" or "Break below" and counts the closes. On the 4th, if it has not come back to the edge, it becomes the Classic ORB.
It is the range's own height added beyond the broken edge. If the range is 84.7 points tall and price broke above 29609.3, one range height above is 29694.0. Traders have measured the open this way for decades. It is a distance on the chart, not a forecast, and price may never get there.
Because a number like that would come from other markets and other days, not from the chart in front of you, and it would read as a promise. The panel only shows prices and counts of candles from your own chart. Whether to act on a play stays your decision.
Yes. With "Stocks: use the exchange's own open" on (the default), a stock or fund gets one range from the exchange's own first candle of the day, read on the exchange's clock. US stocks use the 09:30 New York open; a stock on the NSE, Xetra or Hong Kong gets its own open range.
One that divides the range length evenly and is no longer than it. For a 15 minute range, a 1, 3, 5 or 15 minute chart. If the chart does not fit, nothing is drawn and the panel names the charts that do. On daily charts and above it draws nothing.
No. It names the play that is on the chart and the level that play measures, with the close that would change the read. It never says to act on it, and it cannot see what comes next. Decisions stay with you.
It starts clean: three sessions, three ranges each, extra levels off. If you switched levels on, keep "Nearest levels only" on, lower "Ranges kept per session", or turn off the sessions you do not trade. "Panel detail" on Phone keeps the panel to four lines.
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